Since the Shanghai army made a detour to Gaochun to raid Xiaolingwei, the battle was decided, and the outer defense line of Tianjing was opened.

Li Weiguo set up a large camp in Xiaolingwei and sent a large army to attack Yuhuatai, and also sent a force of 5,000 people.

At the foot of Zhongshan Mountain, the majestic Tianjing City stands in front of you.

This is the largest city in the world, divided into the imperial city, the palace city, the capital and the outer city four roads, only the outer city stretches for more than 60 kilometers, eighteen city gates, commonly known as the outer eighteen.

Now, the sky above this magnificent giant city is filled with gunsmoke, countless fires on the city walls, and puffs of black smoke billowing into the sky, as if the end has come.

Jubaomen, the strongest and majestic city gate in the outer city of Tianjing, has a total of four city walls, three urn cities, and twenty-seven Tibetan caves, where the Taiping army hides 3,000 soldiers, plus 8,000 defenders in the open place on the head of the city, a total of 11,000 men and horses, all of them are ready at this moment, alerting the enemy outside the city.

On a gentle slope three miles outside the city, Wang Degui, the commander of the Shanghai Army, slowly put down the binoculars and suddenly said: "Damn, why didn't Lao Tzu find the Jubaomen so difficult to beat before?" ”

Wang Degui is very depressed, as the captain of the Li family's security guard, he can be said to be an old qualification in the Li family's army, he was forcibly trained in hell by Li Weiguo for three months, and then he was thrown into the crash course of Danfu University by Li Weiguo for half a year, and then went to the night school of Danfu University for more than a year. For three days, not even a single person climbed the top of the city.

"Shame on you!"

In Wang Degui's view, this is a shame.

It's just that Wang Degui forgot his task, Li Weiguo didn't ask him to break through Tianjing City, but only gave him 5,000 soldiers and horses, the original intention was to let Wang Degui contain the Taiping army in the city. so that it did not dare to go out of the city to reinforce Yuhuatai, and cooperate with the main force of the Shanghai army to capture Yuhuatai.

But Wang Degui was eager to make meritorious contributions, and he forgot about it and unconsciously improved the level and difficulty of the task, and changed from containment to main attack.

"Ahem! - This Lord Wang, our mission directives to contain the Taiping army in the city, but not for you to capture Tianjing City! ”

Chief of Staff Liu Yang was hindered by Wang Degui being a popular man in front of Li Weiguo and the old seniority of the Shanghai army, so he didn't say much at first, anyway, the losses of the Shanghai army were slight, and the containment task was overfulfilled. But now I hear Wang Degui's words. felt that Wang Degui had forgotten his task and was ready to change the assist to the main attack, if something went wrong, it was a big deal, so he had to remind him.

"You don't say I almost forgot!" Wang Degui suddenly realized that although he was from a humble background, he was a person who could listen to persuasion, which was also the real reason why he was able to sit as the commander of ten thousand masters.

However, he still has some regrets, and he is very eager to participate in the attack on Yuhuatai. Because the location of Yuhuatai is the most important, occupying Yuhuatai is equivalent to occupying the commanding heights of Tianjing and capturing the first important place in Tianjing.

He sighed, "If you give me another 5,000 soldiers and horses." I'm confident I've breached this damn treasure gate! ”

Liu Yang said with a smile: "Why should Lord Wang be in a hurry, Lord Li will win Tianjing sooner or later, Lord Wang, you are Lord Li's confidant, why worry that there is no chance to make meritorious contributions!" ”

Wang Degui thinks about it. He was preparing to withdraw his troops, and at this moment, he quickly reported to him.

"Newspaper—"

"Your Excellency has an order. Order Wang Degui to attack the city with all his might, and be sure to make the rebels frightened! ”

Liu Yang suddenly smiled and said: "Congratulations to Lord Wang, if you can break the city, it will be a miracle!" ”

Wang Degui was puzzled and said: "My lord doesn't add a soldier to me, let my five thousand brothers attack the city with all their might, even if the city is broken, I will not be able to succeed me, how can I get the miracle?" ”

Liu Yang had an expression of victory, and said with a smile: "Lord Wang, do you know that if you break this treasure gate, the rebels will definitely be terrified, so Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing are not frightened?" Only when they are frightened will they force Shi Dakai to lead the army back to aid Tianjing, so that our adults will have the opportunity to set up an ambush halfway, carry out the strategy of encircling the point to help, and annihilate Shi Dakai's 100,000 army in one fell swoop, and then return to the army to conquer Tianjing. ”

Wang Degui suddenly realized, and immediately said happily: "It's still Staff Officer Liu who sees far-reaching, think about it, it's really like this!" ”

Wang Degui figured out the joints here, and immediately happily gathered his troops, preparing to launch another onslaught at Jubaomen.

On the other side, Yuhuatai, the battle was unprecedentedly fierce, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, the fire was surging, and the shouts of killing shook the sky.

The Shanghai army charged again and again, but they were stubbornly repelled by the Taiping army, for which the Taiping army paid a heavy price. Because the Shanghai army relied on the advantage of foreign guns and artillery, the combat effectiveness was extremely strong, although there were 20,000 Taiping troops on Yuhuatai, but they suffered heavy casualties, almost 20 to 1 battle loss ratio, the Taiping army was completely using flesh and blood as the shells and bullets of the Shanghai army.

In front of the headquarters of the Shanghai Army, Li Weiguo saw that he could not capture Yuhuatai for a long time, and his face was very ugly.

"Come on, drag him out, and take the twenty boards seriously!"

The soldiers came in and dragged out a commander who had just been defeated, and soon the voice of the commander screaming was heard outside.

There is a way that Ci is not in charge of the army, but Li Weiguo is also a temperamental person, and at this moment, the Shanghai army saw his fierce side.

There are now only nine of the fifteen commanders, and in the previous six waves of charges, the six commanders were all shot back by the Taiping army, and all of them were slapped with twenty boards, and then sent to the medical camp tent to heal their wounds.

Listening to the screams outside, every time a board was smashed, the hearts of the remaining nine commanders in the tent jumped to their throats, and cold sweat broke out on their foreheads.

"A broken mountain, I haven't taken it down until now, I'm really angry!"

Li Weiguo paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, scolding from time to time, and then looked at the rest of the generals and shouted: "You guys are standing up to show me one by one?" ”

Nine people, look at me, I look at you, all of them have been bombarded by Li Weiguo's indiscriminate map, although it is an unwarranted disaster, but the leader scolds people, they can only endure it, and they dare not have the slightest dissatisfaction.

Zheng Biao straightened his chest, took a step forward, stood up, and shouted: "Report!" ”

"I'm not deaf, so I don't need to be so loud!" Li Weiguo is purely unreasonable. glanced at Zheng Biao and shouted, "Speak!" ”

"Yes!" Zheng Biao saluted, and then said, "I humbly request to lead the headquarters to fight!" ”

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Yes!" If you can take Yuhuatai, I will promote you to be the captain of ten thousand people! ”

"Thank you, sir!" Zheng Biao suddenly smiled, thinking that Li Weiguo was better to him than to others.

"I can't take down the Yuhuatai in an hour, so I'll get fifty boards by myself!" Li Weiguo said with a cold face and mercilessly.

"Yes!" Zheng Biao received the order, a little dumbfounded, and the other eight commanders immediately held back a smile when they saw this. But he didn't dare to make a mistake in Li Weiguo.

Soon, Zheng Biao led his 1,000 subordinates to replace the Shanghai army that had retreated before, and quickly launched an attack on Yuhuatai.

Knock knock!

In an instant, the artillery roared, the mountains shook, and more than 50 cannons of the Shanghai artillery opened fire, covering Zheng Biao's 1,000 Shanghai soldiers to attack.

Boom!

On Yuhuatai Mountain, one shell after another exploded. In an instant, the trees were broken, the earth and rocks shot out, and a group of flames rose into the air, and the entire Yuhuatai was instantly filled with gunsmoke.

The Taiping army on the mountain tried to find a hiding place as much as possible. Dodging the shelling, there were still Taiping soldiers who were hit by shells, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere, and their stumps and broken arms were scattered everywhere.

Chen Jiong, the defender of the Taiping Army, hurriedly commanded. quickly shouted: "Don't be afraid, the Shanghai army will only rush up after the shelling, everyone hides themselves." As long as our hearts yearn for the kingdom of heaven, Heavenly Father will bless us! ”

Chen Jiong is a fierce general of the Taiping Army, the backbone of the worship of God, he led the troops very well, first told the soldiers how to dodge the shells of the Shanghai army, and then assisted the Heavenly Father to bless, with the help of divine power to improve morale.

I have to say that the power of faith is very terrifying, for these Taiping soldiers who joined the God Worship Sect in the early days, it is precisely because of the power of faith that they are not afraid of death and have extremely strong combat effectiveness, otherwise they will not be able to stop the tiger and wolf Shanghai army several fierce attacks.

Sure enough, after hearing Chen Jiong's words, many Taiping soldiers who were originally afraid quickly calmed down and hid themselves. Even if some of the Taiping soldiers who were not hidden were killed by shells, they were considered to have ascended to heaven and enjoyed happiness, so that their morale was not greatly affected.

At the foot of the mountain, Zheng Biao commanded a thousand Shanghai troops to complete the formation, listened to the sound of the army's drums, picked up the musket, and marched forward neatly.

When the Shanghai army approached the Taiping Army's position about 200 meters, the Shanghai army's artillery quickly adjusted its artillery fire to extend it and prevent accidental injury to its own people.

In the years of the Musket Line War, the real power of the infantry musket was in the range of 30 to 50 meters, and it stands to reason that the artillery of the Shanghai Army should wait until the infantry approached the Taiping Army's position about 100 meters before extending the artillery fire. It is a pity that it is difficult to achieve infantry and artillery coordination in this era, because the artillery is too lacking in shooting and aiming instruments, and judging by the naked eye, the error is very large, and if it is too close, it will directly blow up its own people.

It was for this reason that when the artillery of the Shanghai army stopped or the artillery fire was extended, the infantry of the Shanghai army was still nearly 200 meters away from the Taiping army's position, which gave the Taiping army time to breathe and enter the position for deployment.

"Raise your gun!"

"Shoot!"

Zheng Biao learned the lessons of the six commanders in front of him and ordered to shoot at a distance of 100 meters, although this distance was almost difficult to hit the enemy for a front-loading smoothbore gun, but it was a momentum that could deter the enemy and boost the morale of his officers and soldiers.

The Taiping army immediately returned fire, they also had a lot of muskets, but it is a pity that the Taiping army's musket ammunition is lacking, the previous rounds of fierce fighting consumed a huge amount, many Taiping soldiers in the hands of the musket are either damaged or have no ammunition, making the Taiping army's musket counterattack force weaker and weaker.

However, the Taiping Army still has some artillery, to be precise, large-caliber firearms, because most of the artillery that the Taiping Army got from Li Weiguo was equipped for the defense of Tianjing City, and was allocated to the Eastern Expedition and the Western Expeditionary Army, and the Northern Expeditionary Army also lost a lot.

Knock knock!

More than a dozen guns of the Taiping army fired, the sound was like thunder, the fire was dazzling, and the clouds and fog were spewed, but it was a pity that the shells fired were too small, and they were all solid or scattered. Among them, solid bullets have almost no effect, and only scattered bullets can cause some casualties to Shanghai soldiers.

But the soldiers of the Shanghai army were well-trained, and a few scattered bullets could not stop their will to attack.

Bang bang bang!

The platoon guns of the Shanghai army opened fire again, the distance became closer and closer, the projectiles became denser and denser, and the casualties of the Taiping soldiers became larger and larger.

However, Chen Jiong still commanded calmly and ordered the Taiping soldiers to shoot arrows and throw rolling logs and stones to block the attack of the Shanghai army.

on the position. A Taiping soldier had just lifted a boulder and was shot in the chest and fell down before he could throw it, and then another Taiping soldier rushed up and threw the boulder down in his place.

The Taiping Army relied on this belief that they were not afraid of death, and used their flesh and blood to serve as the bullets of the Shanghai Army, after all, the ammunition carried by the soldiers of the Shanghai Army was limited, and there was always a time lag when the musket was loaded with ammunition, and there was a time difference, and the Taiping Army took advantage of this time difference. Stubborn resistance.

Chen Jiong knew very well in his heart that the huge casualties of the Taiping army could not last, and the 20,000 Taiping army now had less than 8,000 people left, and most of them were wounded, and it was a great luck to be able to hold out until dark.

At the moment, Chen Jiong only hopes that Tianjing City will quickly send troops to reinforce it, otherwise as soon as Yuhuatai is lost, Tianjing will become a turtle in an urn.

"Withdraw!"

Chen Jiong gave an order, and the Taiping army quickly withdrew from its position. At this time, the Shanghai army rushed to the position.

Like the six waves of Shanghai soldiers who rushed to the position before, the Taiping army planted gunpowder and kerosene in advance and ignited them with rockets, hoping to attack again.

But Zheng Biao is not a fool. He has the lesson of the previous six waves of Shanghai army blood, how can he not be guarded. The Shanghai soldiers cautiously rushed into the position, and when the Taiping army released the rockets, the Shanghai soldiers quickly retreated. frustrating the enemy's plans.

Chen Jiong saw that this trick did not work, and immediately ordered the whole army to rush and kill and recapture the position.

Brutal hand-to-hand combat begins again. Despite the bayonet skills of the Shanghai army, the Taiping army completely failed to attack frantically, and even committed suicide attacks. Often, the Taiping soldiers were either tied to explosives or oil bottles, and they exploded and burned themselves, and if they could not defeat the Shanghai soldiers, they would die together with the Shanghai soldiers.

In the face of the Taiping Army's style of play, Zheng Biao, who was standing at the headquarters just now, didn't think it was too powerful, but now after putting himself in his shoes, he understood how terrifying it was.

Obviously, the soldiers of the Shanghai Army were deeply taught by Li Weiguo, and it was impossible for them to die together with the soldiers of the Taiping Army. A soldier of the Shanghai Army is so expensive, and he died with a Taiping soldier, not to mention that the soldiers of the Shanghai Army themselves are unwilling, and Li Weiguo is not willing, it is all his money and his hard work!

Zheng Biao didn't dare to fight out the troops, so he had no choice but to order a retreat.

The seventh offensive of the Shanghai army failed again.

If you look at the proportion of casualties on both sides, it is obvious that the Shanghai army won a big victory, but it is a pity that Li Weiguo wants to be the Yuhuatai position, and if he does not capture Yuhuatai, it is a failure.

Zheng Biao lowered his head and pleaded guilty to Li Weiguo.

The other eight commanders were about to see Zheng Biao's joke on the board, but Li Weiguo just sighed, this time he didn't get angry again, but ordered the military doctor to treat Zheng Biao's injuries, encourage him, and arrange for him to go down to rest.

Chen Jingnan couldn't guess Li Weiguo's thoughts, and immediately asked, "Lord, why didn't you punish him this time?" ”

Li Weiguo smiled bitterly: "I can't beat all the generals on the board!" One by one, they can't stand up on their stomachs, who will command the troops to fight, do you want me to go up in person? ”

Chen Jingnan suddenly smiled and said: "The Lord can see it, which shows that the Lord has made progress again, the way of the Lord, when one is relaxed, neither can lose the majesty, nor can the punishment be too heavy, the Lord has a good grasp of this degree!" ”

Li Weiguo said: "This is considered tuition!" Today I really saw the power of faith, I didn't expect these Taiping soldiers to go crazy, and I really can't treat them as human beings! ”

Chen Jingnan nodded and said, "The Taiping Army governs the army with religion, these are the backbone elites, and they are the result of Hong Xiuquan's training for many years. But don't worry too much about the Lord, these Taiping elites die one less and one, as time goes by, the Taiping Army elites will become fewer and fewer, today the Taiping Army can be one as ten, tomorrow may be one as nine, and in the future, dozens of them will not be able to determine the current one. Now the real purpose of the Lord is to put pressure on Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing, so that they can recall Shi Dakai back, and we will encircle and send reinforcements halfway to severely damage or eliminate Shi Dakai's 100,000 army is the real goal, as for the destruction of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, didn't the adults say that they are not in a hurry? ”

Li Weiguo glanced at Chen Jingnan and praised it in his heart, this Chen Jingnan is really wise, the Taiping Army was indeed fanatical in the early stage, a Taiping Army could fight ten Qing troops, but in the later stage, the veterans of the Taiping Army were becoming less and less, and it was really ten Taiping troops who could not defeat a Qing army.

However, Li Weiguo suddenly had an idea in his heart, the power of faith of the Taiping Army is really terrifying, if he Li Weiguo also sorted out the Three People's Doctrine and Marxism-Leninism in advance, what would the result be?

"Meow a mi, the table is forcing me to go crazy!" (To be continued......)